- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:08:59 -0700
- To: "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>, xmlconf-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
- Cc: www-dom-ts@w3.org
> 1. The tests will be represented in a language-neutral, XML format. > This format will be posted to this list to be discussed I'd at least like to see some standards for the test metadata. That is, XML would naturally be used to describe each test case, its input data, its output data, and how results get reported. I have in mind that a test run could just spit out lots of XML results (test ABC passed, failed with result "foo", etc.) that an XSLT stylesheet would crunch into a test results report (which could highlight nonconformance problems). In the same way, some different stylesheet could crunch a test description report from those test inputs, which could be used to assess testing depth and coverage. That perspective leaves open a hole in the middle where the language-specific API testing is actually done, which I suspect is where some of the current thought has gone. For that I'd likely be content to have collections of language specific code making the API calls -- which may not be the model that some other folk are working with. - Dave
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